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1/50 January 12, 2019

Firefighters extinguish fire after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris

AFP / Getty

2/50 January 11, 2019

Workers shoveling snow out of a restaurant after an avalanche at Santis-Schwaegalp mountain resort in Switzerland

Reuters

3/50 January 10, 2019

Supporters by Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the main Congolese opposition party, the Union of Democracy and Social Progress announced as the winner of the presidential election; celebrate along the streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Reuters

4/50 January 9, 2019

Philippine coastguards watch as Roman Catholic devotees cross the bridge in a generous procession of the black Nazarene to celebrate their anniversary in Manila. Thousands of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics joined the annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ to celebrate the Black Nazarene Feast which usually ends before dawn the next day

AP

5/50 January 8, 2019 [January82019] 19659018] A car caught in snowdrifts in southeastern Poland. Many cities throughout Poland have been the subject of snowfall

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6/50 January 7, 2019

Actor Kevin Spacey claimed he was not guilty of sexual abuse at the Nantucket District Court in Massachusetts. The Oscar-winning actor is accused of dropping the teenage son to a former Boston TV anchor in 2016 in a crowded bar at the Club Car in Nantucket

Reuters

7/50 January 6, 2019

A gentoo penguin is seen during a campaign event during an annual ice festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China

Reuters

8/50 January 5, 2019

Snow covers the statue of Alexander the Great on the promenade in Thessaloniki, Greece

Reuters

9/50 January 4, 2019

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire on a commercial market in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Reuters

10/50 January 3 2019

AFP / Getty

11/50 January 2, 2019

Two men pass by a damaged cargo train after an accident in Nyborg, Denmark. Several people were killed in the crash on a bridge connecting two islands in Denmark, police said

AFP / Getty

12/50 January 1, 2019

The emergency watchman transports a baby survivor after a gas explosion a residential building in Russia's Urals city ​​of Magnitogorsk. Russian rescuers have had to temporarily stop the search for dozens of missing people in the walls in a collapsed high-rise location that the building risked crumbling longer, officials said with the incident claiming at least seven lives. Part of the 10-storey building collapsed after a gas explosion on the morning of December 31 in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains

Russian Emergencies Ministry / AFP / Getty

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December 31, 2018

Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbor during New Year's Eve in Sydney

AP

14/50 December 30, 2018

Bangladeshis army personnel are driving a military vehicle through a street ornament with election posters near a voting station in Dhaka. Bangladesh led the polls after a week-long campaign dominated by fatal violence and claims of the destruction of thousands of opposition activists.

AFP / Getty

15/50 December 29, 2018

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli speaks to journalists when he arrives at the hospital where Vietnamese victims of an attack on a tourist bus where it is taken in the Al-Haram district in the Egyptian capital Kairos twin city Giza. "Three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian travel guide were killed on December 28 when a road bomb hit their bus when it traveled near the Giza pyramids outside of Cairo," officials said.

16/50 December 28, 2018

Light blue light is seen after a transformer explosion at a power plant in New York City, Queens

Reuters

17/50 December 27, 2018

Opal Tower in Sydney Olympic Park, Australia. The tower's inhabitants have been told to leave a second time in four days to enable the company and investigators to make an "extensive investigation" to a crack on the 10th floor of the building. Emergency Services was called in the afternoon of December 24 after the residents of the building had heard crack sound throughout the morning

EPA

18/50 December 26, 2018

A young man wearing a father's Christmas costume distributes gifts to children in the old city of Mosul

AFP / Getty

19/50 December 25, 2018

A participant in a Santa costume jumps into the water during the 109th edition of "Copa Nadal" (Christmas Cup) swimming competition in Barcelona's Port Vell. The traditional 200-meter Christmas Eve gathered more than 300 participants in Barcelona's old port

AFP / Getty

20/50 December 24, 2018

US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone when he answers calls from People calling the telephone line NORAD Santa Tracker in the White House in Washington

AFP / Getty

21/50 December 23, 2018

An aerial view shows damaged buildings in Carita after the area was hit by a tsunami on December 22 after an eruption of the volcano Anak Krakatoa. The volcanic tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after hitting without warning to beaches around Indonesia's swimming tree. Officials Fearing That The Fee Should Rise

AFP / Getty

22/50 December 22, 2018

Protesters carrying a yellow vest (gilet jaune) are standing next to a burning barricade as they point to rising cost of living they blame high taxes on the A9 motorway in Le Boulou, southern France. The "Yellow West" (Gilets Jaunes) movement in France originally started as a protest against planned fuel upsets, but has turned into a mass protest against the president's policies and top-down style of governing

AFP / Getty

23/50 [19659018] December 21, 2018

A Palestinian man wearing a Santa Claus clothes a flower to the man in a wheelchair during a demonstration near the Israel-Khan Yunis border in the southern Gaza Strip

AFP / Getty

24/50 December 20, 2018

Moroccan authorities are investigating the scene of the cruel murder of two Scandinavian women at the Atlas Mountains. The suspects in the death have promised disgust for ISIS

AP

25/50 December 19, 2018

Supporters of Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Martin Fayulu number four (candidate's number on the election list) as they protest in Kinshasa after the campaign was interrupted for security reasons by the authorities

Getty

26/50 December 17, 2018

Pyongyang residents are preparing to lay flowers on statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during the National Memorial Day at Mansu Hill. North Korea marks the seventh anniversary of Kim Jong II's death

AFP / Getty

27/50 December 16, 2018

Firefighters work in place where a large explosion occurred at a restaurant in Sapporo. According to local media, an explosion that triggered a fire in a restaurant in Sapporo reported on the evening of December 16. At least 20 people have been reported injured and taken to hospital.

EPA

28/50 December 15, 2018

A supporter wears a cast on her broken wrist with "I (heart) Obamacare" written on it. A federal judge in Texas ruled that the US health law called Obamacare is unconstitutional – a verdict that resistance democrats promised to appeal. The American District Judge Reed O & # 39; Connor's verdict came in a trial filed by several Republican state lawyers and a governor against the federal government's health plan, officially called the "Affordable Care Act"

EPA

29/50 December 14, 2018

A Palestinian carries a flaming tire in the midst of conflicts with Israeli forces. Israel performed raids on the West Bank today in search of a Palestinian who shot dead two soldiers yesterday

AFP / Getty

30/50 December 13, 2018

Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani (L) and main government negotiator Mohammed Abdelsalam shakes hands during peace negotiations in Sweden supervised by the UN

AFP

31/50 December 12, 2018

Baby monkeys playing on a wall of India's parliament in New Delhi. Macaque monkey has cooled parliament, destroying important documents, attacking government officials and the generally threatening state

Reuters

32/50 December 11, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at Chancellor in Berlin. May postpone the Brexit Agreement Significant Voice on December 11 due to the risk of rejection by Members of Parliament. She is currently on a whistle-stop tour of Europe calling on the leaders of the Netherlands, Germany and the EU in Brussels to seek new leadership lines for her Northern Ireland backstop

EPA

33/50 December 10, 2018 [19659024] The police examines an empty school bus crashed in the North Point district of Hong Kong. Two people were killed when a school bus mounted a sidewalk in a crowded Hong Kong area, stepped by and injured 13, police said

AFP / Getty

34/50 December 9, 2018

December 9, 2018

] A Boca Junior's fans are waiting for a show in Buenos Aires for the Copa Libertadores final against the Rivals River Plate. The match is held in Madrid, a neutral ground, after it has been twice delayed due to violence

AP

35/50 December 8, 2018

Protesters wearing "yellow vests" with rebellion police near the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris during a protest against rising living costs they blame on high taxes. "Paris was on the alert with important security measures in place for new protests against" yellow vest "which the authorities fear may be violent for a second weekend in a row. Annegr Kramp-Karrenbauer reacts after being elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union, after the 18-year reign of Angela Merkel

Getty

36/50 December 7, 2018

19659026] 37/50 [19659124] December 6, 2018

Police use tear gas against protesters during a demonstration in Athens to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a deadly shooting by a teenager who triggered major riots in Greece 2008

AFP / Getty

38/50 December 5, 2018

US President George HW Bush's flagged coffin is transported by former US President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, former First President dam Hillary Clinton, former president Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter as it comes to her state funeral at Washington National Cathedral

Reuters

39/50 December 4, 2018

College students burn a barricade in front of their high school during a demonstration against the French government Educational reforms

AFP / Getty

40/50 3 December 2018

Sully, the service dog of former US President George HW Bush in his last months lies in front of Bush's coffin at George H Lewis & Son's funeral home in Houston, Texas

Courtesy Office of George HW Bush / Reuters

41 / 50 December 2, 2018

Demonstrators march in Brussels to "claim climate" as world leaders meet in Poland to discuss the goals of the climate agreement in Paris

AP

42/50 December 1, 2018

A protest moves to a tear gas can during a protest in Paris today against rising fuel prices

Reuters

43/50 November 30, 2018

US President Donald Trump, S United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shin Zo Abe waving hands over other leaders during a family photo at the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reuters

44/50 November 29, 2018 [19659018] Firefighters fight a flame on the Fingerfield road at the Deepwater National Park area of ​​Queensland. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in northeastern Australia as bushfires raged across the state in the midst of a burning heat wave

AFP / Getty

45/50 November 28, 2018

A child is waiting to get free bread off a local charity bakery among a serious lack of food in Sana'a, Yemen. According to reports, nearly 22 million people in Yemen's 26 million people need humanitarian assistance as a result of increased food security. The poor Arab country is experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to an ongoing brutal conflict that has been going on for more than three years, which has driven millions in the wrath of famine

EPA

46/50 November 27, 2018

November 27, 2018

A gas bomb was thrown against the Ajax fans during their Champions League match against AEK Athens in the Greek capital.

47/50 November 26, 2018

Ukrainian activists burn spots during their rally in front of the Russian Consulate in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, on November 25, announced the decision to impose a court of law in Ukraine for a period of 60 days. Russia seized three Ukrainian ships as they left the Kerch Strait. The two small "Berdian" and "Nikopol" armored artillery boats had come under the enemy fire and are now dead in the water. "Yany Kapu" tug was forced to be forced and captured by the Russian Federation's Special Forces

EPA

48/50 November 25, 2018

Women's rights activists gather to march through Taksim Square to protest against gender violence in Istanbul on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

AFP / Getty

49/50 November 24, 2018

River Plate fans collide with the riot police after the second leg of Copa Libertadore's final game against rivals Boc Juniors was postponed

Reuters

50/50 November 23, 2018

Elias Lopez, a three-year-old Honduran migrant, records between the shields of a series of Mexican riot police, when the group he was part of tried to cross the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana , Mexico. Elias Lopez is part of a group of US migrants who marched peacefully to the border crossing to demand better conditions and drive to enter the United States

AP

1/50 January 12, 2019

Firefighters extinguish a fire after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris

AFP / Getty

2/50 January 11, 2019

Worker shoveling snow out of a restaurant after an avalanche at the Santis-Schwaegalp mountain resort in Switzerland

Reuters

3/50 January 10, 2019

Supporters by Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the Congolese main opposition party, the Union of Democracy and Social Progress announced as the winner of the presidential election; celebrating along the streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Reuters

4/50 January 9, 2019

Filipino coastguards watch as Roman Catholic devotees cross the bridge in a generous procession of the Black Nazarene to celebrate their anniversary in Manila. Thousands of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics joined the annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ to celebrate the Black Nazareth party that usually ends before dawn the next day

AP

5/50 January 8, 2019

] A car caught in snowdrifts in southeastern Poland. Many cities throughout Poland have been the subject of snowfall

EPA

6/50 January 7, 2019

Actor Kevin Spacey argued that he was not guilty of sexual assault at the Nantucket District Court in Massachusetts. The Oscar-winning actor is accused of attaching the teenage son to a former Boston TV anchor in 2016 in a crowded bar at Club Car in Nantucket

Reuters

7/50 January 6, 2019

A gentoo penguin is seen during a campaign event during an annual ice festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China

Reuters

8/50 January 5, 2019

Snow covers the statue of Alexander the Great on the promenade in Thessaloniki, Greece

Reuters

9/50 January 4, 2019

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a commercial market in Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Reuters

10/50 January 3 2019

AFP / Getty

11/50 January 2, 2019

Two men pass by a damaged cargo train after an accident in Nyborg, Denmark. Several people were killed in the crash on a bridge connecting two islands in Denmark, police said

AFP / Getty

12/50 January 1, 2019

The emergency watchman transports a baby survivor after a gas explosion a residential building in Russia's Urals city ​​of Magnitogorsk. Russian rescuers have had to temporarily stop the search for dozens of missing people in the walls in a collapsed high-rise location that the building risked crumbling longer, officials said with the incident claiming at least seven lives. Part of the 10-storey building collapsed after a gas explosion on the morning of December 31 in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains

Russian Emergency Situations Ministry / AFP / Getty

13/50

December 31, 2018

Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbor during New Year's Eve in Sydney

AP

14/50 December 30, 2018

Bangladesh's army personnel are driving a military vehicle through a street ornament with election posters near a voting station in Dhaka. Bangladesh led the polls after a week-long campaign dominated by fatal violence and claims of the destruction of thousands of opposition activists.

AFP / Getty

15/50 December 29, 2018

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli speaks to journalists as he arrives at the hospital where Vietnamese victims of an attack on a tourist bus where it is taken in the Al-Haram district in the Egyptian capital Kairos twin city Giza. "Three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian travel guide were killed on December 28 when a road bomb hit their bus when it traveled near the Giza pyramids outside of Cairo," officials said.

16/50 December 28, 2018

Light blue light is seen after a transformer explosion at a power plant in New York City, Queens

Reuters

17/50 December 27, 2018

Opal Tower in Sydney Olympic Park, Australia. The tower's inhabitants have been told to leave a second time in four days to enable the company and investigators to make an "extensive investigation" to a crack on the 10th floor of the building. Emergency Services was called in the afternoon of December 24 after the residents of the building had heard crack sound throughout the morning

EPA

18/50 December 26, 2018

A young man wearing a father's Christmas costume distributes gifts to children in the old city of Mosul

AFP / Getty

19/50 December 25, 2018

A participant in a Santa costume jumps into the water during the 109th edition of "Copa Nadal" (Christmas Cup) swimming competition in Barcelona's Port Vell. The traditional 200-meter Christmas Eve gathered more than 300 participants at Barcelona's old port

AFP / Getty

20/50 December 24, 2018

US President Donald Trump speaks on the phone when he answers calls from People calling the telephone line NORAD Santa Tracker in the White House in Washington

AFP / Getty

21/50 December 23, 2018

An aerial view shows damaged buildings in Carita after the area was hit by a tsunami on December 22 after an eruption of the volcano Anak Krakatoa. The volcanic tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after hitting without warning to beaches around Indonesia's swimming tree. Officials Expressing Fear That Road Tolls Will Rise

December 22, 2018

Protesters carrying a yellow vest (gilet jaune) stand next to a burning barricade as they point to rising cost of living they blame high taxes on the A9 motorway in Le Boulou, southern France. The "Yellow West" (Gilets Jaunes) movement in France originally started as a protest against planned fuel upsets, but has turned into a mass protest against the president's policies and the top-down style of govern

AFP / Getty

23/50 [19659018] December 21, 2018

A Palestinian man wearing a Santa Claus clothes happens to a flower to the man in a wheelchair during a demonstration near the Israel-Khan Yunis border in the southern Gaza Strip

AFP / Getty

24/50 December 20, 2018

Moroccan authorities are investigating the scene of the cruel murder of two Scandinavian women at the Atlas Mountains. The suspects in the death have promised conciliation to ISIS

AP

25/50 December 19, 2018

Supporters of Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Martin Fayulu number four (candidate number on the election list) they protest in Kinshasa after that campaigns were interrupted by security authorities

Getty

26/50 December 17, 2018

Pyongyang residents are preparing to lay flowers on statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during the National Memorial Day at Mansu Hill. North Korea marks the seventh anniversary of Kim Jong II's death

AFP / Getty

27/50 December 16, 2018

Firefighters work in place where a large explosion occurred at a restaurant in Sapporo. According to local media, an explosion that triggered a fire in a restaurant in Sapporo reported on the evening of December 16. At least 20 people have been reported injured and taken to hospital.

EPA

28/50 December 15, 2018

A supporter wears a throw on his broken wrist with "I (heart) Obamacare" written on it. A federal judge in Texas ruled that the US health law called Obamacare is unconstitutional – a verdict that resistance democrats promised to appeal. US Judge Reed O & # 39; Connor's verdict came in a trial filed by several Republican state lawyers general and a governor opposite the federal government's health plan, officially known as the "Affordable Care Act"

EPA

29/50 December 14, 2018

A Palestinian carries a flaming tire in the midst of conflicts with Israeli forces. Israel carried out raids on the West Bank today in search of a Palestinian who shot dead two soldiers yesterday

AFP / Getty

30/50 December 13, 2018

Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani (L) and main government negotiator Mohammed Abdelsalam shakes hands during peace negotiations in Sweden supervised by the UN

AFP

31/50 December 12, 2018

Baby monkeys playing on a wall of India's parliament in New Delhi. Macaque monkey has swarmed parliament, destroys important acts, attacks government officials and the generally threatening state

Reuters

32/50 December 11, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at Chancellor in Berlin. May postpone the Brexit Agreement Significant Voice on December 11 due to the risk of rejection by Members of Parliament. She is currently on a whistle stop tour in Europe calling leaders of the Netherlands, Germany and the EU in Brussels looking for new guidance lines for her Northern Ireland backstop

EPA

33/50 December 10, 2018 [19659024] The police examines an empty school bus crashed in the North Point district of Hong Kong. Two people were killed when a school bus mounted a sidewalk in a crowded area of ​​Hong Kong, imprisoned passers-by and injured 13, police said

AFP / Getty

34/50 December 9, 2018

December 9, 2018 [December 9, 2018] 19659018] A Boca Juniors fans are waiting for a show in Buenos Aires for the Copa Libertadores final against rivals River Plate. The match is held in Madrid, a neutral ground, after it has been twice delayed due to violence

AP

35/50 December 8, 2018

Protesters wearing "yellow vests" with rebellion police near the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris during a protest against rising living costs they blame on high taxes. "Paris was on the alert with important security measures in place for new protests against" yellow vest "which the authorities fear may be violent for a second weekend in a row. Annegr Kramp-Karrenbauer reacts after being elected leader of the Christian Democratic Union, after the 18-year reign of Angela Merkel

Getty

36/50 December 7, 2018

19659184] 37/50 [19659124] December 6, 2018

Police use tear gas against protesters during a demonstration in Athens to celebrate the 10th anniversary of a deadly shooting by a teenager who triggered major riots in Greece 2008

AFP / Getty

38/50 December 5, 2018

US President George HW Bush's flagged coffin is transported by former American president Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton, former president this first lady Hillary Clinton, former president Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter as it comes to her state burial at Washington Nationa College

Reuters

39/50 December 4, 2018

College students burn a barricade in front of their high school during a demonstration against the French government Education reforms

AFP / Getty

40/50 December 3, 2018

Sully, the service dog of former US President George HW Bush in his last months lies in front of Bush's coffin at George H Lewis & Son's funeral home in Houston, Texas

Courtesy Office of George HW Bush / Reuters

41/50 December 2, 2018

Demonstrators march in Brussels to "claim climate" as world leaders meet in Poland to discuss the goals of the climate agreement in Paris

AP

42/50 December 1 2018

A protest moves to a tear gas can during a protest in Paris today against rising fuel prices

Reuters

43/50 November 30, 2018

United States President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and Japan's Prime Minister Shin Zo Abe waving hands over other leaders during a family photo at the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reuters

44/50 November 29, 2018 [19659018] Firefighters fight a flame on the Fingerfield road at the Deepwater National Park area of ​​Queensland. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in northeastern Australia as bush birds raged across the state in the midst of a burning heatwave

AFP / Getty

45/50 November 28, 2018

A child is waiting to get free bread off a local charity bakery among a serious lack of food in Sana'a, Yemen. According to reports, nearly 22 million people in Yemen's 26 million people need humanitarian assistance as a result of increased food security. The poor Arab country is experiencing a humanitarian crisis due to an ongoing brutal conflict that has been going on for more than three years, which has driven millions in the wrath of famine

EPA

46/50 November 27, 2018

November 27, 2018

A gas bomb was thrown against the Ajax fans during their Champions League match against AEK Athens in the Greek capital.

47/50 26 november 2018

Ukrainska aktivister bränner fläckar under deras rally framför Ryska konsulatet i Kharkiv, Ukraina. Ukrainas president Petro Poroshenko, vid ett möte i National Security and Defense Council, den 25 november meddelade beslutet att införa krigsrätt i Ukraina under en period av 60 dagar. Ryssland grep tre ukrainska fartyg i samband med att de lämnade Kerchstrædet. The two small-sized &#39;Berdiansk&#39; and &#39;Nikopol&#39; armored artillery boats had come under enemy fire and are now dead in the water. The &#39;Yany Kapu&#39; tugboat was forcibly stopped and captured by special forces of the Russian Federation

EPA

48/50 25 November 2018

Women&#39;s rights activists gather to march through Taksim Square to protest against gender violence in Istanbul on the International Day for the elimination of violence against women

AFP/Getty

49/50 24 November 2018

River Plate&#39;s fans clash with riot police after the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final match against rivals Boc Juniors was postponed

Reuters

50/50 23 November 2018

Elias Lopez, a three-year-old Honduran migrant, plays in between the shields of a line of Mexican riot police, when the group he was part of tried to cross the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. Elias Lopez is part of a group of Central American migrants that marched peacefully to the border crossing to demand better conditions and push to enter the US

AP

The moon is tidally locked to Earth, rotating at the same rate as it orbits our planet, so its far side – or “dark side” – is never visible to us. Previous spacecraft have seen the far side, but none have landed on it.

This landing “lifted the mysterious veil” of the far side of the moon and “opened a new chapter in human lunar exploration”, the agency said in a statement on its website, which included a wide-angle colour picture of a crater from the moon’s surface.